Interview from Dan
What's your ultimate learning goal for your girls? What is it you think the center should truly be teaching them?
Wow, there's like a million things I want to teach them. And they are all at different places so the lessons vary largely from young woman to young woman.
"You don't need your pimp."/"That is a false sense of love."
"You can reclaim your sexuality."
"You are smarter than you think and than others have told you."
"You are worth more than your attractiveness."
"School is not that scary."
"Square work* is not that scary."
"I'm nosy because I love you."
"I'm tough** because I love you."
If you were forced to start over in a new city with nothing but complete strangers around you, what part of yourself would you leave behind from your old life that you don't want the new people to know?
Wow. I like this question, but I don't think I have an answer. I mean, there are things in my past that I prolly won't volunteer, but eventually I'd prolly reveal most if not all of myself. Just because I'm most comfortable when I can be open.
Money and space are not a constraint... what would you splurge on?
A brownstone. That's my biggest goal I guess. Interestingly though I had a dream last night that I finally got living room furniture and it felt so nice!
Yay! More!!
*"Square work" is any work not pertaining to the life (pimping, prostitution, etc)
**I'm not particularly "tough." And none of the girls have used that term, but they do act like I'm being rough when I push them. Part of that is teenageriness (and sometimes they make me want to just send my kids off to boarding school once they hit 13). While some of it is frustration since people expect the worst of them and therefore don't push them to do more.
Wow, there's like a million things I want to teach them. And they are all at different places so the lessons vary largely from young woman to young woman.
"You don't need your pimp."/"That is a false sense of love."
"You can reclaim your sexuality."
"You are smarter than you think and than others have told you."
"You are worth more than your attractiveness."
"School is not that scary."
"Square work* is not that scary."
"I'm nosy because I love you."
"I'm tough** because I love you."
If you were forced to start over in a new city with nothing but complete strangers around you, what part of yourself would you leave behind from your old life that you don't want the new people to know?
Wow. I like this question, but I don't think I have an answer. I mean, there are things in my past that I prolly won't volunteer, but eventually I'd prolly reveal most if not all of myself. Just because I'm most comfortable when I can be open.
Money and space are not a constraint... what would you splurge on?
A brownstone. That's my biggest goal I guess. Interestingly though I had a dream last night that I finally got living room furniture and it felt so nice!
Yay! More!!
*"Square work" is any work not pertaining to the life (pimping, prostitution, etc)
**I'm not particularly "tough." And none of the girls have used that term, but they do act like I'm being rough when I push them. Part of that is teenageriness (and sometimes they make me want to just send my kids off to boarding school once they hit 13). While some of it is frustration since people expect the worst of them and therefore don't push them to do more.